I recently acquired what I believe to be an original all matching 1893 Chilean Mauser that was originally meant for the Boers (C Block) to go with my 1895 Chilean Mauser which I have had for a few years. Curious if the sling on the 1893 is original and what the stipling on the stock is from. The 1895 is mostly matching but it is missing the cleaning rod, the safety doesn't match, and the rear sight is close, but the numbers are reversed. Also the crest and Cartouche seems different than that which is in Ball's book.

All comments are welcome.

Also I am in search of Chilean 1895 Short and Carbine as well as 1912 Long and Short in all matching and original condition to complete my Chilean collection. If anyone has one to sell please PM me.

1893 Chilean

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I recently acquired what I believe to be an original all matching 1893 Chilean Mauser that was originally meant for the Boers (C Block) to go with my 1895 Chilean Mauser which I have had for a few years. Curious if the sling on the 1893 is original and what the stipling on the stock is from. The 1895 is mostly matching but it is missing the cleaning rod, the safety doesn't match, and the rear sight is close, but the numbers are reversed. Also the crest and Cartouche seems different than that which is in Ball's book.

All comments are welcome.

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Beautiful rifles.. I would tend to think the safety may be just a factory error, those guns are so clean.. So what is the difference in your crest.. ??? I do not see a difference??

I recently acquired what I believe to be an original all matching 1893 Chilean Mauser that was originally meant for the Boers (C Block) to go with my 1895 Chilean Mauser which I have had for a few years. Curious if the sling on the 1893 is original and what the stipling on the stock is from. The 1895 is mostly matching but it is missing the cleaning rod, the safety doesn't match, and the rear sight is close, but the numbers are reversed. Also the crest and Cartouche seems different than that which is in Ball's book.

All comments are welcome.

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Beautiful rifles.. I would tend to think the safety may be just a factory error, those guns are so clean.. So what is the difference in your crest.. ??? I do not see a difference??

Crest in book looks to come to a point. Also Cartouche seems to have a date on mine.

The sling is incorrect from what little shows. It appears to be a 1903 Springfield US sling. On my 1895 Chilean Mausers I got this type of sling with the rifles when Gander Mountain sold tons of 1895 rifles at $165 back around 2007/8????
For what I think is a correct sling is also found on 1916 rifles, see http://www.rollanet.org/~stacyw/spanish ... _sling.htm

Back in the day 2007, the rifles at the Gander store, about 30-40 rifles at each store had matching and non matching specimens some with and without slings. My two matching, 1895 long rifle, Chilean mausers had the curved buckle sling with well worn leather. All rifles had cleaning rods. Now some of the dogs were converted to .308, most others were original caliber 7mm mauser. Both calibers were offered at that time.
This came out , http://dutchman.rebooty.com/1895Chile.html , and all of the .308 rifles went to the Green bay store and were sold off to someplace due to possible safety/libility concerns around late 2009. I never saw any of the 1893 versions.

To old to fight and to old to run, a Jar head will just shoot and be done with you.

The sling is incorrect from what little shows. It appears to be a 1903 Springfield US sling. On my 1895 Chilean Mausers I got this type of sling with the rifles when Gander Mountain sold tons of 1895 rifles at $165 back around 2007/8????
For what I think is a correct sling is also found on 1916 rifles, see http://www.rollanet.org/~stacyw/spanish ... _sling.htm

Back in the day 2007, the rifles at the Gander store, about 30-40 rifles at each store had matching and non matching specimens some with and without slings. My two matching, 1895 long rifle, Chilean mausers had the curved buckle sling with well worn leather. All rifles had cleaning rods. Now some of the dogs were converted to .308, most others were original caliber 7mm mauser. Both calibers were offered at that time.
This came out , http://dutchman.rebooty.com/1895Chile.html , and all of the .308 rifles went to the Green bay store and were sold off to someplace due to possible safety/libility concerns around late 2009. I never saw any of the 1893 versions.

Your stock matches and does have a cartouche. It is intact. Cleaning rod will be stamped to match. 265
A nice looking 1895. Note the 1895 does not use a 1912 bayonet. Both the Chilean Mauser 1895 and 1912 use a slightly different bayonet with similar markings. The barrel loop is different on each bayonet. Libertytreecollectors had square buckle slings at one time see:https://www.libertytreecollectors.com/p ... ategory=50
The dutchmans link shows a rifle with a square buckle sling????? It appears my rifles may have a Spanish sling rather than a Chilean sling. I believe the square one shown below is more correct. The Gander rifles had both types of slings. Most rifles were missing or had cracked off slings back in 2008 when these Chilean antiques were dumped on the marked. They are great shooters

Here is a link to the libertytreecollectors reference library showing details of an intact rifle like Gander sold back in the day. And another aspect was the non .308 specimens did not have import marks on the barrel. Neither of mine are import marked because I think they were considered antiques???? However the .308 I remember did have a mark on the barrel.
see these fine photos: https://www.libertytreecollectors.com/p ... oduct=4757

Below are some photos of the details from the above source, libertytreecollectors. Screen shots of details in there better photos from their reference library for a 1895 Chilean rifle .

I am on page 39 of Balls, " Mauser Military Rifles of the World, second ed, 2000 and both pictures show the same crest . Just that the photo on the right of an 1895 rifle is from a poorly stamped example. A poor photo. Balls 1893 crest is the same as the 1895 photo shown in my close up of the Libertytreecollectors rifle.

Some rifles have 1895, some 1898 and some MF, others may have other dates on the stock cartouch. On some stocks the cartouch is worn away.

To old to fight and to old to run, a Jar head will just shoot and be done with you.

I am on page 39 of Balls, " Mauser Military Rifles of the World, second ed, 2000 and both pictures show the same crest . Just that the photo on the right of an 1895 rifle is from a poorly stamped example. A poor photo. Balls 1893 crest is the same as the 1895 photo shown in my close up of the Libertytreecollectors rifle.

Some rifles have 1895, some 1898 and some MF, others may have other dates on the stock cartouch. On some stocks the cartouch is worn away.

This lower one from castboolits is great. Lots of info & worth a print out on paper. However, 3 pages of info and to print out it comes to 22 (p.1), 16 (p.2), 12 (p.3) total approximately 50 pages at 100% To decrease pages you can use their Thread tools : show printable version: but you do not get the photos. Good info on 93 vs 95http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthr ... 895-Mauser